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Do not allow epithets to eclipse the real question

Trade CS Moses Kuria.

Even after he was gagged by the court, Trade, Investments and Industry Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has gone ahead with his media-bashing by, once again, unabashedly describing journalists as prostitutes.

We do not know exactly what Mr Kuria has against commercial sex workers - the desperate women who resort to selling their bodies to fend for their children partly because of the government's failure to provide them with more dignified means of earning a living - but we do know that he has a beef with journalists, specifically Nation Media Group, over their investigative story which alleged a major scandal in the importation of duty free cooking oil.

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